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Albion Marine Solutions has developed its own proprietary design of a zero emissions electric, renewable energy powered ferry, "Albion Zero".

The ferry has been designed in line to meet the latest as well as upcoming environmental legislations, making it a future-proof solution. Albion Zero’s sustainable design is also compatible to work with solar power and tidal power to charge the onboard batteries. The ferry is designed to be fitted with a wide range of Albion Marine’s latest technical solutions that will work seamlessly to provide optimal level of reliability and efficiency. The ferry would utilise the latest developments in this domain such as wireless charging and automatic mooring capabilities.

Albion Zero’s design has been kept modular to suit different types of vessel sizes and propulsion mechanisms. Although, it can be implemented globally, it has been designed to replace/ convert the huge number of diesel-hydraulic river-crossing ferries in Canada. This concept is well suited for remote, indigenous, and Northern communities which have no grid power around the ferry crossing area to charge the batteries. The adaptability to solar and tidal power gives Albion Zero a cutting edge in the river crossing ferry market.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down Albion Marine's team has been extremely busy. We have been of great support to our clients, colleagues, and business partners during this crisis. Our team just completed phase I for an Advanced Air Emission Technology project designed to reduce air pollution emissions in major Canadian ports. Our team works hard to help reduce the environmental footprint of marine transportation. We have also completed the concept design for a 250 PAX hybrid ferry and a HVAC design for FPSO.

The next key regulatory milestone is the 2030 regulations where a reduction of 40% of carbon emissions is the current objective. It is widely expected that this threshold will be increased. To date, in the first quarter of 2020, the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) reported that most ships calling at the ports of Singapore have complied with the regulation. It was further reported that based on the pre-arrival notification submitted to MPA, 96% of the ships calling at Singapore used compliant fuel. This excludes ships installed with open loop scrubbers that switch to using compliant fuel upon arriving at Singapore as the use of open loop scrubbers is prohibited in the port of Singapore. In addition, DNV GL reported about 4,000 ships being fitted with scrubbers and more were scheduled to do so during the year due to the price difference between heavy fuel oil (HFO) and low sulphur fuel oil (LSFO). This spread has since reduced to significantly below USD $100 per metric tonne. More information: Safety 4 Sea

As the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down, our team is ready to work. We have been of great support to our clients, colleagues and business partners during this crisis. Albion Marine has successfully completed 3D Scan and started designing scope for BWTS retrofit for a vessel belonging to one of the leading shipping companies in Qatar.